Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled ... (ISBN 140005494X)

The prevailing ideology of Isolationism:
In 1990-1995, Liberia forced more than 800,000 people into exile. The UN did not exercise its influence and power stopping the injustice. The UN did not bring justice to the Khmer Rouge leaders. In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge murdered millions of Cambodians and the UN did not authorize a forceful stop to the murder. The UN was late in response to the 1994 Rwanda War. In 1998, five African countries invaded Congo and by 2001, 2.5 million people were killed and it was not until 2003 that the UN dispatched French forces to establish law and order, a year latter. The UN is letting special interests dictate policy and these economic and social incentives prevent action. The UN policies and actions are seemingly covert; the UN does not want an informed public. The UN is dysfunctional and this ineptiness increases the chance of crimes against humanity. The UN has no deterent capacity. The UN is not a legal body operating to some objective legal criteria. The UN can maintain diplomatic neutralism in the face of genocidal murders and this is immoral. The UN is taking the side of evil not to fight against evil. The maximum too resist not evil seems to apply to the powerless because the powerless should not provoke greater anger and bring destruction upon them by acting. "The ability to confront evil means the willingness to act boldly and ruthlessly and without consensus". The UN cannot act without consensus and if it's members can reframe from voting then they in essence have prevented healthy action. The ability or refusal, to recognize evil and boldly confront evil is the UN's salient flaw. The UN has had an unusual amount of authority within the Middle East. The UN affirms the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist Israeli occupation. The UN has not deterred the terrorist threat in the Middle East nor has the UN, the supposed protector of international peace and security and improved peace in the world. Instead the UN has gerrymandered itself to many totalitarian regimes giving them voice in shaping world affairs. The UN ideology is weak; the UN remains silent on the peoples right too a representative government; the UN ideology has caved from a position of morality too one of relative morality. The UN did not create Israel. The UN did not owe its existence to a UN parition plan or UN resolution. The Arab leaque refused to accept the Jewish state. The Arabs did not disguise their aggression towards Israel and made the following statement "this will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and crusades." The Arabs represented a group of states against Israel. The UN declared for the first time they would react too the threat with armed intervention. The UN did not react and the failure to act would result in serious injury to the prestige of the UN. The UN called for an Arab cease fire even as the old city of David was falling; 57 synaguoges and academies were destroyed. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) under the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin took Kastel allowing 131 trucks carrying 500 tons of food passage into Jerusalem saving a population of 160,000 where 100,000 were at risk. In 1967, Syrian pressed their claims to the Sea of Galilee, Israel's only source of fresh water, which the armistice had established was entirely within the territory of Israel. In Syria had a new defense treaty with Egypt and April of 1967, Syria escalated shelling of villages in northern Israel. The Israeli's responded to the unusually heavy Syrian artillery barrages by launching fighter aircraft and shot down six Syrian Sovet Mig fighters. Syrian infiltrations increased. IDF, General Yitzhak Rabin warned Syrians that continue provocations would lead to a firm Israeli response that would endanger the Syrian regime. Israel was deterring Syria from exploiting their topographical advantage on the Golan Heights to shell Israeli civilians. The Soviet Union exploited the situation to spread rumors about Israel's plans of expansion inflaming the Arab world. The Soviets warned Egypt that Israel was planning a major offensive against its Syrian military partner. Israel vociferously denied the charge. The UN did nothing to stop the escalation and confrontation crisis. The Egyptians prepared for war. May 18, 1967 President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt massed 80,000 soldiers and 550 tanks on Israel's southern border. Egypt was conveying aggressive intent and commanding the UN Emergency Force to withdraw its peacekeepers from along the border between Israel's Negev Desert and Egyptian Sinai. Egypt artillery gun overlooked the Straits of Tiran, a vital lane Israel depended on for access to the Red Sea and ultimately the Indian ocean. U Thant ordered the UNEF withdrawal and war emanating in the region. U Thant reported to the security council, "Relations between peoples on opposite sides of the line are such that if the United Nations buffer should be removed serious fighting would, quite likely, soon be resumed" Nasser announced he was closing the Straits of Tiran, thereby enacting a blockade against Israel shipping. It was an act of war. Nasser was a pan-Arab advocate intervening in the politics of Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Yemen, where he dispatched a huge expeditionary army in 1962. In 1964, Nasser was known as the "Hero of the Soviet Union" and Soviet admirals were constantly visiting Egypt seeking naval and air bases to counter the US sixth fleet. The UN did not convene to discuss the Egypt-Syria crisis. The Soviet representative said, "The Soviet delegation deems it necessary to stress that it does not see sufficient grounds for hasty convening of the Security Council and for the artificially dramatic climate fostered by the representatives of some Western powers". It is obvious the Soviets wanted Egypt to act out and continue in his confrontational course. Superpowers can not go to war because of mutual assured destruction through the escalating possibility of nuclear weapons; however, superpowers manipulated local governments to engage in confrontations in localized theatres and establish dominance indirectly. Jordon's King Hussein placed his armed forces under Egypt. Two Egyptian commando battalions joined nine Jordanian brigades that were poised to strike Israel from the Jordanian-controlled west bank and 1/3 of the Iraqi army traversed Jordanian territory and was positioned to cross the Jordan River. The battle was intended to destroy Israel and they knew Israel could not absorb the first blow. June 5, two hundred Israeli aircraft destroy Egyptian air force on the ground. More than a 1,000 Israeli's were injuried during the Jordian assault, Israel held its fire until Jordanian troops crossed into Jerusalem. Syria, sent bomber to attack Israel's oil refineries in Haifa Bay and in response Israel destroyed 2/3 of the Syrian air force. Finally, Iraqi bombers attack Israel and prompted an Israel counterstrike. June 10, 1967, Israel had captured the Gaza strip and the Sinai Pennisula, destroying the Egyptian military that had threatened a mass invasion and Israeli forces had captured the West bank and dismantled Jordanian military. They had recovered the old city of Jerusalem. And finally Israel had taken the Golan Heights from Syria. The UN involvement in the conflict had been a dismal failure. The Israeli army had defeated Soviet arms on the battlefield. It was not up to America diplomacy to decisively beat back Soviet initiative at the UN. The tower of Babel was a futile attempt to unify all people subject by one government. The massive pyramid of money, technology, lust, and greed compelled the people to build upward. Time was their enemy because resources were not unlimited. It was only a matter of time before the tower had too be abandoned as a futile effort. The UN does not have the capability too maintain or create World peace. God punished the people for their vanity. The people of the tower of Babel fell into confusion and their languages were changed. Individual tribes and small communities emerged with each tribe establishing customary laws and cultures. The idea of one single unifying power was destroyed. The UN will also fall upside and great will be its fall. Hopefully the "deep rooted" ideology of isolationism will compel the US too abandon the United Nations and remove its entanglement in the affairs of other nations. Peace will prevail as nations stop entangling themselves into the economic, social, and moral administration and politics of other countries.

Talkshop for dictators:
In the introduction, the author shows that at least once in its existence the United Nations served the purpose it was created for. That was in 1990 when the Security Council took a stand against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Unfortunately, in every other instance it has failed, mostly spectacularly and often with tragic consequences. There were for example the peacekeeping disasters of Somalia 1993, Rwanda 1994, Srebrenica (Bosnia) 1995, Kosovo and Congo/Zaire. The last two crises flowed from the Bosnia and Rwanda disasters respectively. The refusal to confront evil is the major flaw of the UN. This refusal eventually morphed into collusion with evil, as the Oil For Food scandal demonstrates. In chapter 2: Failure Foreshadowed, Gold discusses the birth of Israel in 1948 when there were no UN forces to withstand the Arab aggression. Likewise during The Kashmir War of the same year between India and Pakistan. Already the organization was betraying the vision of its founders by not acting against the aggressor. And from there it went downhill: Tibet followed in 1950, India annexed Goa in 1962 and many similar acts followed. Chapter 3: Cold War Freeze, looks at the North Korean invasion of the South in 1950, the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. The next chapter deals with the Six Day War of 1967 and Resolution 242. The UN remained passive and actually enabled the outbreak of war. During the Iran-Iraq War that started in 1980, the UN again refused to condemn the aggressor and it did nothing about Saddam's 1987 chemical attacks on the Kurds. After the Gulf War, it again ignored genocide, this time against the Shia Muslims of Iraq. In chapter 6: Impartial To Genocide, the disturbing and heartbreaking events of the Rwandan genocide are recalled. General Romeo Dallaire warned the Dept of Peacekeeping Operations - then under Kofi Annan - of the impending horror, but the warning was ignored. In some instances, UN forces colluded with the mass murderers. The UN's inaction ultimately led to a regional war in Central Africa. The next chapter deals with the tragedy of Srebrenica and the other supposed "safe havens" in Bosnia and shows the duplicity of the UN and certain European governments. Chapter 8 discusses the international criminal court, a highly politicised concept from the beginning, and one that cannot be expected to be objective. Chapter 9 provides proof of how the UN backs terrorists, with particular reference to the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon and the many instances of collusion between it and the UN's UNIFIL force. The author concludes that the major cause of these failures is the international body's moral equivalence. It does not distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil or victim and aggressor. Although he was responsible for the failure in Rwanda, Kofi Annan nevertheless became Secretary-General. The Oil For Food scandal and the underreported child sex abuse scandals have completely undermined the organization's legitimacy. It adopts numerous Anti-Israel resolutions every year but has for years ignored the genocide in Darfur. In fact the perpetrator Sudan was elected to its Human Rights Commission in 2004. The 2001 UN Conference Against Racism in Durban was an openly Antisemitic hate fest. Unlike the EU or Africa, Israel is isolated in that it does not form part of a larger bloc, and it is always up against the Arabic and Islamic states. Although it has failed utterly to halt aggression and bring about a peaceful world order, the UN is still protected by the ideology of political correctness. Some of its agencies still perform good work, but overall the spiral is further downhill as documented in the Afterword with further revelations on Darfur, sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers, oil for food monies that went to terrorists and UN agencies infiltrated by terror groups. An example of the latter is UNRWA and its ties to Hamas. The Appendix: The Paper Trail, provides evidence on various failures like Rwanda, Bosnia, Iraq, Oil For Food and UNRWA's ties to Hamas, mostly from the United Nations' own documents. There are extensive notes, acknowledgements and an index. The book includes maps of the Kashmir Dispute, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, the Six-Day war, Rwanda, and its Neighbours, the Bosnian Conflict and Lebanon and Israel. There are also 17 black and white photographs of personalities and tragic evidence of the UN's failures. In addition to this valuable and informative book, I recommend The UN Gang by Pedro Sanjuan, Global Deception by Joseph Klein, The UN Exposed by Eric Shawn, Inside The Asylum by Jed Babbin and Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the West by Alex Grobman.

One of the most eye-opening books I've ever read:
Dore Gold has boldly stated what many people have quietly discussed for years. Tower of Babble is impossible to put down and will be impossible to forget. Most frightening is coming to the realization that we are all pawns in political games of interest and that human lives are truly worth very little to the UN. I will never be able to view conflicts in the world without wondering what covert deals are influencing its course and how many thousands upon thousands of lives are lost as a result of the UN's "neutral stance." Dore Gold demonstrates so clearly that the UN has been repeatedly negligent at best and destructive at its worst. The UN will never be able to live up to its founding platform after WWII to never again allow for the mass destruction of people and its time we stopped believing in them at all.

United Dictators Against Freedom:
The author, after making an earth-shaking exposure of the corruption and greedy deeds of these evil organization, ends up with a tepid note of hope. It just doesn't make any sense. "Money-for-Food" they called it, when they had been fooling the whole free world (the West) by pocketing millions themselves and their club of world dictators. Is this hope inspiring? Refusing to prevent, or do anything to stop, the killing of hundred of thousands of black Africans in Rwanda, and getting away with it? So many, mind you: so many, many issues that have gone practically unnoticed since the end of WWII that are calling for the close-down of this modern day Babylon. This book picks the most important scandals around the world and exposes them in an easy to understand language. The facts are naked, you put the adjectives. Do we need any more evidence to call this gang a state-sponsored mafia? Will Amazon let me publish this review in my second try? How can Iran be one of the countries to tell us what human rights should be? A must read to know what we are contributing to with our money.

An Eye Opener About United Nations Corruption:
Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.N., writes a revealing account of U.N. incompetence, corruption and lack of judgement. The U.N. cannot make moral decisions about global actions. Therefore, its enforcement and moral standing is nonexistent. With imposed impartiality, it failed to act in Rwanda and Bosnia and even caused the murder of thousands in Srebrenica. Its member refuse to condemn such human rights abusers as China, Zimbabwe, Syria and Iran - while readily condemning Israel and the U.S. Take this book as a warning toward the implementation of contrivances like the International Criminal Court. Will the Chinese judge on the court vote to release Chinese dissidents? Unlikely that they will tackle thorny and needed issues.